Two Russian agents suspected of carrying out the Salisbury nerve agent poisoning may have used a portable heat sealer to repackage a fake perfume bottle containing novichok during a “missing 33 minutes” when they vanished from CCTV cameras shortly after the attack, an inquiry heard.
The police counter-terrorism chief who leads the investigation said it was possible they slipped into a toilet block, re-sealed the novichok container in plastic and left it in a bin in the city centre before re-appearing on security cameras.
